GP2X Is Now Official (1)
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The GP2X is not quite dead, as it has just been announced officially. This will be a pretty niche device, featuring a built-in Flash Player (compatible with Flash 7.0) that is meant for simple commercial games. Features of the GP2X include :- OLED touch screen display ARM9 533MHz processor 64MB RAM 3D accelerator The GP2X will ship in the middle of October onwards, and I don't see it threatening the PSP or DS anytime soon ...
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gbraad said:
The Wiz features the MagicEyes Pollux chipset, which supports OpenGL ES 1.1... while the Pandora supports OpenGL ES 2.0 (throught the use of the TI 3530 with PowerVR). Also Pandora's speed can be overclocked to 900MHz, has more memory... but lacks a OLED display.
From iPhone 3G back to S60 - a nine-fold set of wins (2)
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iPhone 3G owner and blogger Tarek Esber has had enough of Apple's device and has gone back to an S60 phone. Here he lists in articulate detail the nine reasons why the S60 device is superior for his needs. An interesting read (via this week's Carnival of the Mobilists)
Michael Giagnocavo: Extension Methods Suck (1)
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Been meaning to write this for a while, and I think I touched on it here, but I'd like to expand a bit. C# Extension Methods are just a hack to compensate for C#'s poor handling of functions in general. As far as I can tell, they were added solely so you can do this type of thing in LINQ: var squares = myInts.Select(i => i * i) Instead of: var squares = Enumerable.Select(myInts, i ...
Jack Moffitt: Choosing An XMPP Server (1)
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Choosing an XMPP server is a big decision. Should you go with the popular one or the one written in the most popular language? Perhaps you don’t plan to become a systems administrator and you need one which is easy to set up and maintain. Unfortunately for people making this important choice, there is not much guidance published beyond features comparisons. What follows is an account of our decision making process on XMPP servers - ...
Nokia N85 - the dual slider evolves: OLED, USB charging, tri-band WCDMA (4)
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The Nokia N85, the latest edition to Nokia's Nseries range, was announced today. With AM OLED screen technology, tri-band WCDMA (3G) cellular radio, USB charging, and preloaded Ovi content and services, the multimedia-centric N85 delivers the latest evolution of Nokia's dual slider form factor. The N85 boasts the usual impressive Nseries specification list: 5 megapixel camera (with dual LED flash and lens cover), integrated GPS, WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity, FM transmitter and TV-out. The N85 ...
Nokia N85 Dual-Slides Into My Heart (6)
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I bought my Nokia N95-3 almost a year ago, in December 2007. Despite once saying I was passing on the N95, I simply couldn’t withstand the lure of HSDPA on an S60 device here in the U.S., and I was hooked since I got it. However, at 9 months old, it’s aging, and I’m itching for something with a few more improvements. Welcome my next new phone, the Nokia N85. Just announced today, this baby ...
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Rahul Gaitonde said:
USB charging comes to Nokia. Finally.
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gbraad said:
In my opinion this one is better than Nokia's N96... why? The battery is a whopping 1200mAh, while the N96 includes only a 950mAh battery. I currently see no need for a DVB-H receiver... and only .2" more display. Still curious about Nokia's Tube before making any decision about a new phone.
Asus Download Center Launched (1)
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Asus has just rolled out its new software download center that caters specifically to Eee PC users only. At time of publishing, there are more than 3,400 free Linux applications to choose from, ranging from games to media players and office applications. Hopefully most of these won't be shovelware, and that there will be some sort of quality control. Unfortunately, it doesn't look as though there is an easy way to install these programs on ...
CentOS position on systems intrusion at Red Hat (1)
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Earlier in the day today Red Hat made an announcement [1] that there had been an intrusion into some of their computer systems last week. In the same announcement they mention that some of the packages for OpenSSH on RHEL-4 ( i386 and x86_64 ) as well as RHEL-5 ( x86_64 ) were signed by the intruder. In their announcement they also clarified that they were confident that none of these, potentially compromised, packages made ...
ASUS leaks N10 ultra-portable with HDD, HDMI-out (2)
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Images and external specifications for the so-called ASUS N10 leaked Friday, confirming rumors of the hard drive-bearing, non-Eee branded micro laptop. The simply-detailed N10 offers users a 10.2 inch widescreen monitor (rated at 1024 by 600 pixels),...
NVIDIA finalizes CUDA 2.0, Photoshop plugin (2)
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NVIDIA today formally released the finished version of CUDA 2.0. The second generation of the company's general-purpose programming language for its video chipsets supports 64-bit versions of Mac OS X and Windows Vista and adds support for instructi...
SecondLife rolls out Mono-powered servers (19)
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Big news for the Mono team today. Linden has started the roll out of their Mono-powered simulation servers. Users can now opt into having their LSL scripts executed using the Mono VM (it remains an opt-in feature, because some scripts are timing sensitive and the performance increase could break code). Some choice quotes from Jim Purbrick's blog post: As well as providing immediate benefits, the integration of the Mono virtual machine makes many future improvements ...
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gbraad said:
SecondLife itself is not so interesting to me... but technologically it is; it supports microthreads (and stackless development) and intergration of the Mono platform.
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dewitt said:
"Big news for the Mono team today.Linden has started the roll out of their Mono-powered simulation servers." -Miguel de Icaza. This is really cool. In the past you might be able to script with a language like Lua (or in SecondLife's case, LSL), but as far as I know this is a first for enabling support for a powerful VM that could theoretically support any number of language front-ends. Also a good show of support for the Mono project itself. Congrats all around.
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Coop said:
This is huge for developers and a great strategic move for Linden Lab. I wonder if Ray Ozzie had something to say about this move?
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Robert Scoble said:
Interesting. Mono is an open source implementation of Microsoft's .NET system. Good for programmers.
Intel and Yahoo! envision embedded internet TV (5)
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Filed under: Home Entertainment We're not sure who let Yahoo! into Intel's party in San Francisco, but the two sure are getting along great. Much to the chagrin of Mark Cuban, these two actually believe that there's a future in internet TV, particularly if you force it down people's throats. Intel spent the bulk of its time talking up the Media Processor CE 3100 (formerly known as Canmore), which would theoretically be installed within HDTVs ...
Pandora project demoed on video, shows off hardware, Linux, and Quake 2 - Engadget (3)
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Filed under: Gaming, Handhelds It looks like the Pandora project is really coming together nicely. EvilDragon has just posted this video on the GP32x boards of a development model up and running. It's pretty exciting stuff if you're a homebrew fan (and we know you are), featuring demos of the device smoothly running emulators like PicoDrive, PSNES, booting up a build of Linux, and even getting its Quake 2 on (at high frame rates and ...
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Frank said:
Awesome and open source.
Sony intros PS3-based video rendering system (1)
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At the Siggraph 2008 exhibition being held in Las Vegas, Sony on Tuesday announced the first of its ZEGO-branded hybrid multi-core processing platforms for HD video production with the BCU-100 computing unit. The ZEGO platform is based on Sony's Cell...
NVIDIA first to support OpenGL 3 (1)
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NVIDIA this afternoon was quick to announced that it was supporting the new OpenGL 3.0 standard for graphics and has already launched a software driver beta. The update is currently available only for Windows PCs but lets all GeForce 8-, 9-, and GTX...
OpenGL 3.0 brings 32-bit depth, OpenCL hook (1)
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Standards backer Khronos Group has published the specifications for OpenGL 3.0, the next major revision to the universal graphics programming format. The new version focuses on high dynamic range (HDR) images and now includes support for 32-bit, flo...
Apple's Secret "Back to My Mac" Push behind IPv6 (3)
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The Internet is running out of addresses.To get around this problem and a host of others not addressed in the existing Internet Protocol (IPv4),a new revision has been in development for years,called IPv6.Apple has a few tricks up its sleeve for pushing IPv6 adoption,and many Mac users are already chin deep in the technology without even knowing it
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CHC said:
Ahhhh... IPv6 finally described in a way I can understand and value.
Live Archos 5 photos show device and user interface (1)
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Our French buddies from generationmp3 have access to a unit of the just-announced Archos 5, a connected (3.5G, WIFI) internet tablet. Their photo gallery shows the device under many angles and most importantly it shows how the touch-interface looks like. Don't forget that there's a larger 7" model too: the Archos 7. Add a comment | From: Live Archos 5 photos show device and user interface | Visit Ubergizmo
Microsoft Silverlight: 10 reasons to love it, 10 reasons to hate it (Tim Anderson/The Register) (10)
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Tim Anderson / The Register: Microsoft Silverlight: 10 reasons to love it, 10 reasons to hate it — A year or so ago I wrote a post called Adobe AIR: 10 reasons to love it, 10 reasons to hate it. Here's the same kind of list for Microsoft's Silverlight, based on the forthcoming Silverlight 2.0 rather than the current version.
